A nurse at a hospital in the Turks and Caicos said about 70 people were taken there, including four who had died.

Five people were admitted to the hospital, and the others had minor injuries, the nurse said.

The boat's occupants were migrants from Haiti, according to the Coast Guard. The overcrowded vessel was thought to have set sail from the Haitian port of Cap Haitien, the Turks and Caicos Sun newspaper reported.